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A Captain Alatriste Adventure
Captain Alatriste
• Arturo Perez-Reverte
• Margaret Sayers Peden
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2005 •
PAPER
• 304 PAGES
The first book in Perez-Reverte's popular swashbuckling series starring Captain Diego Alatriste and memorably set in the Golden Age of 17th-century Spain. Viggo Mortensen stars in the movie.
(SPN280, $15.00) |
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Pirates of the Levant
• Arturo Perez-Reverte
LITERATURE •
2011 •
PAPER
• 304 PAGES
In the sixth novel recounting the adventures of Captain Alatriste, our captain -- accompanied by Inigo, his adopted son -- accepts a job as a mercenary aboard a Spanish galleon on a hard-boiled, swashbuckling journey that will take them through Morocco, Algeria, and Malta.
(SPN450, $16.00) |
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Purity of Blood
• Arturo Perez Reverte
• Margaret Sayers Peden
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2006 •
PAPER
In this second book in Perez-Reverte's wildly entertaining Alatriste series, also memorably set in 17th-century Spain, our swashbuckling hero rescues a young ward held against her will at a convent in Madrid. Captain Alatriste teams up with the great real-life poet Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas, runs head on into the inquisition and various degenerate royalty, including the Count-Duke of Olivares. It's all great fun, marvelously rendered into English by Margaret Sayer's Peden, and it gives the author plenty of opportunity to comment on honor, faith. love and all that. Viggo Mortensen stars in the movie "Alatriste" due out Winter 2006.
(SPN281, $15.00) |
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The Sun over Breda
• Arturo Perez-Reverte
• Margaret Sayers Peden
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2008 •
PAPER
• 288 PAGES
The third book in the popular series starring the swordsman-for-hire Captain Alatriste. In this rousing military installment, a cautionary tale, Alatriste joins the army of the Spanish King Philip IV to banish the Calvinist heretics from the fortified city of Breda, a bloody siege that drags on for 10 months (as memorialized by Diego Velazquez). Wonderfully translated by Margaret Sayers Peden.
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